DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY1885 |
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... original notes , in which he suggested various changes soon after adopted in the British cavalry . He also completed and edited a history of the King's German Legion ' from its formation in the British service in 1803 to its disbandment ...
... original notes , in which he suggested various changes soon after adopted in the British cavalry . He also completed and edited a history of the King's German Legion ' from its formation in the British service in 1803 to its disbandment ...
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... original sketches , having been given to St. John's College , were granted in 1616 to Sir Thomas Lake , and ap- parently lost . Bearblock's drawings , with Neal's verses , were engraved in 1713 , at the end of Hearne's edition of ...
... original sketches , having been given to St. John's College , were granted in 1616 to Sir Thomas Lake , and ap- parently lost . Bearblock's drawings , with Neal's verses , were engraved in 1713 , at the end of Hearne's edition of ...
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... original character of the representations given by Handel at Covent Hawthorne in Bickerstaff's opera , ' Love in Garden Theatre of Acis and Galatea , ' ' Ata- a Village , ' he retired from the stage , for lanta , ' and other works . The ...
... original character of the representations given by Handel at Covent Hawthorne in Bickerstaff's opera , ' Love in Garden Theatre of Acis and Galatea , ' ' Ata- a Village , ' he retired from the stage , for lanta , ' and other works . The ...
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... original letters , and autographs . The library remained unexamined for forty years , when it came into Beatniffe's hands at the commencement of the century for the small sum of 150l . or 1607. On being sold piecemeal the collection ...
... original letters , and autographs . The library remained unexamined for forty years , when it came into Beatniffe's hands at the commencement of the century for the small sum of 150l . or 1607. On being sold piecemeal the collection ...
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... Original Poems and Translations , ' dedicated to the Earl of Erroll , consisting of pieces contributed to the Scots Magazine and verses recently composed . This collection , ' says his biographer , Sir William Forbes , ' was Hitherto ...
... Original Poems and Translations , ' dedicated to the Earl of Erroll , consisting of pieces contributed to the Scots Magazine and verses recently composed . This collection , ' says his biographer , Sir William Forbes , ' was Hitherto ...
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